RequestsAboutTheProgram2006

Each year our program contains something old, and something new. I can't promise it will happen, but what would YOU like to see in this year's program? DonGray Program Chair 2006.02.22

Moist Chicken?

KurtSimmons Average Joe 2006.02.22

Hmmm. Moist Chicken ... Not sure I know how to work that into a session. Does that make me a turkey? Can you tell me more? DonGray 2006.02.23

Well the session is like this: We commandeer the kitchen and make chicken a dozen different ways. Then we taste test everything. After that we draw an analogy grid between the economics of chicken cooking, and its results, and business practices and their results. Then we all learn if you throw 500 run of the mill people at a project and leave them in a courtyard with no sauce, then you get a dry project.

Do I win? Okay, maybe I should stick with chocolate analogies. I might do better. And more people would show up for the session.

KurtSimmons 2006.02.23

So if I map the domains ... how is cooking chicken like software development? The goal of the owner differs from the goal of the user. The goal of the chicken differs from both of those. And the goal of the developer is to see that all three are happy. And the developer will be blamed if they aren't.

How'd I do?

DonGray 2006.02.23

Better get on with blaming the developer. No way is the cooked chicken -- moist or dry -- going to be happy!

FionaCharles 23-Feb-2006

Hey, I'm allergic to chicken, and may even be allergic to software. Does that leave me out? - JerryWeinberg 2006.-07.23

Request for a Contributed Session (or BoF?)

I would like an AYE participant who draws to consider leading a contributed session or BoF on drawing.

The other day I was reading the New York Times and bumped into the article, "An Exhibition About Drawing Conjures a Time When Amateurs Roamed the Earth" by Michael Kimmelman. Drawing was considered part of being an educated individual.

Mr. Kimmelman wrote in part:

"Drawing promoted meditation and stillness. 'A sustained act of will is essential to drawing,' Paul Val�ry put it. 'Nothing could be more opposed to reverie, since the requisite concentration must be continually diverting the natural course of physical movements, on its guard against any seductive curve asserting itself.
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People, [Benjamin] Franklin pointed out, can often 'express ideas more clearly with a lead pencil or a bit of chalk' than with words. 'Drawing is a kind of universal language, understood by all nations,' he reminded Americans."
We have given it up, at a cost that, as Franklin might have put it, is beyond words."

I haven't sketched or painted in many years and I have given it up at a cost beyond words. I would very much like to pick up a drawing pencil once again and I thought AYE might be a good place to start. I hope my wish is a fit for an AYE participant who would be willing to spend the time reintroducing people to drawing. CharlesAdams 2006.07.21

The discussion looks as though we have an AyeDrawingBof 2006.

Past this point, I have pulled the page into the AyeDrawingBof. CharlesAdams 2006.07.22

I can see that we have Contributed Sessions, but I can't see them on the program. Have you decided when they will be offered? It would be helpful to see all the sessions on the program. SherryHeinze 2006.08.31

Updated: Thursday, August 31, 2006